Let's say I have a page located here in my website:

• mywebiste/section1/slideshow/main/example.html

I'd like to use window.open() to access these pages in my website:

• mywebsite/section2/index.html
• mywebsite/section2/article1/gallery.html
• mywebsite/login.php

These are just random examples, but I'm trying to point out that they are very far away from the example.html page, and I would have to use a lot of ../ and as such ending up with very long (and confusing) URLs.

I thought that there should be a way to directly access the root of the website, but still using relative URLs. (Like if a shortcut .../ or root/ existed and that could redirect you to the root).

Is this possible?

Let's say I have a page located here in my website:

• mywebiste./section1/slideshow/main/example.html

I'd like to use window.open() to access these pages in my website:

• mywebsite./section2/index.html
• mywebsite./section2/article1/gallery.html
• mywebsite./login.php

These are just random examples, but I'm trying to point out that they are very far away from the example.html page, and I would have to use a lot of ../ and as such ending up with very long (and confusing) URLs.

I thought that there should be a way to directly access the root of the website, but still using relative URLs. (Like if a shortcut .../ or root/ existed and that could redirect you to the root).

Is this possible?

• javascript
• html
• url
• window.open

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Just to preface with a / should work.

window.open('/section2/index.html', ...); // etc

You can use window.location.origin in JavaScript which returns the protocol, hostname and port.

For instance:

window.open(window.location.origin + '/other-folder/index.html');

This is not IE patible, but you can try this polyfill: http://tosbourn./a-fix-for-window-location-origin-in-internet-explorer/